Top 554 Pencil Sharpeners Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.
Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.
I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.
So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that.
I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.
It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and
I try to THINK.
I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.
Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
I'm still short now, but when I was 14, I was like a pencil. You had to be aggressive and hold your own.
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.
I love my iPad Pro and my Apple pencil. They have changed the way I work in really cool ways.
You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.
I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
When I was doing 'Les Mis,' someone sent me a collection of pencil rubbers.
We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.
As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
The thing about having a deadline like a baby is that it sharpens the pencil. It makes sure stuff gets done.
At one time my name was on 50 or 60 different items, from dolls to pencil boxes.
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
If you're lacking hair in your brows, applying powder over a waxy pencil will make the color stick.
You don't always have to opt for a dress on a night out - a sequin pencil skirt can be far more chic.
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
